Shipowner John Fredriksen has left the door open to possibly working again with long-serving Golden Ocean Group boss Herman Billung.

“I do not rule co-operating with him again,” Fredriksen told TradeWinds. “I have nothing negative to say about him.”

Billung, 58, was this week asked to leave as chief executive of Fredriksen’s listed dry bulk company, Golden Ocean, but Fredriksen does not rule out them doing business again one day.